Tower and Racing Team Turkey announce drivers

Tower Motorsports and Racing Team Turkey have announced their drivers for the 2023 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Tower Motorsports #13 won their entry thanks to the Jim Trueman title in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, which John Farano secured as the best Bronze-rated driver in the LMP2 category in 2022. He is once again active in USA this year, but it will be with two other co-drivers for the French race. Ricky Taylor and Rene Rast have been signed for the historic endurance race. Taylor races…

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Sørensen to race for GMB at Le Mans

GMB Motorsport has announced their full line-up for the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2023. Aston Martin works driver Marco Sørensen will help out Gustav Birch and Jens Møller for the team’s debut at the French classic Last week we had the announcement that Nicki Thiim would join Birch and Møller for the European Le Mans Series rounds. Sørensen has a programme in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and the team hoped for an entry for the 24 hours race. They were however announced as only the tenth reserve, so…

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Nielsen: We have covered a lot of milage in a short amount of time

The new season of the FIA World Endurance Championship starts this week at Sebring. Ferrari AF Corse is not a new marque in ACO racing, but they are brand new to the Hypercar category in 2023, with their brand new Ferrari 499P in LMH spec. We had a chat with Ferrari works driver Nicklas Nielsen, regarding the introduction and testing over the last few months. You have been testing a lot over the last few months – half a year or so – since the car first came on track.…

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Pagenaud returns to Le Mans

Simon Pagenaud will finally return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2023. The French racing driver will be driving for COOL Racing #47, which he will share with Reshad De Gerus and Vladislav Lomko. Pagenaud has participated in the 24-hour race for times before, making his debut in 2008 for Team ORECA-Matmut in a Courage. The following three years were onboard a Peugeot 908 for Pescarolo Sport and the works team itself. His primary focus moved on to American racing, where the has been plenty of date clashes –…

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JOTA moves from green to gold

JOTA has chosen to change the team colors once again for the 2023 season. The British outfit has changed their liveries many times, depending on the sponsor that they have had, with a range of white, orange, red, and most recently green. Both their brand new Porsche 963 Hypercar and the ORECA 07 Gibson LMP2 will be in gold for 2023. The team has got Hertz as the title sponsor in the Hypercar category, but Porsche hasn’t been able to deliver the new car just yet, due to a shortage…

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37 cars entered for Sebring

The opening round of the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship will have 37 cars on the starting grid. The majority of the entry list for the 1000 Miles of Sebring is as expected, but there is a slight change surrounding the Hypercar and LMP2 categories. Hertz Team JOTA and Proton Competition won’t have their new Porsche 963 cars yet, so they can enter the Hypercar category. Hertz Team JOTA has opted to run in the LMP2 category instead, with David Beckmann pairing up with the full-season regulars Yifei Ye and…

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The 62 cars at Le Mans 2023

The centenary edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans will have 62 cars on the starting grid. It’s been a hundred years since the very first edition of the race will be celebrated in all sorts of ways, on June 10-11 2023. The entry list has just been revealed, one of the most interesting things is the total number of 16 Hypercar entries. That number will be reached with a combination of LMH and LMDh cars. Porsche will be represented with four cars, while Caddilac has three. Toyota Gazoo…

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UA and Vector announce drivers

United Autosports and Vector Sport have announced several of their drivers for the coming 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship season. United Autosports will run Frederick Lubin alongside Filipe Albuquerque and Phil Hanson. Lubin will make his sportscar debut, after having raced single-seaters and karting until now. He has competed in Formula 4, British F3 and Euroformula, doing a classic path through the motorsport categories. Albuquerque and Hanson were teamed up with Will Owen for the 2022 season. Owen has been upgraded to Gold ranking for 2023, so he can no…

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Alpine with two strong cars in the FIA WEC

Alpine Elf Team will enter two very strong cars in the FIA World Endurance Championship 2023. The French team, which is run by Signatech, has a kind of interim year in 2023, with them staying sharp between their Hypercar programme with the Alpine A480 build to LMP1 spec, and their brand new LMDh car coming for 2024. If you look at the drivers, it hasn’t got any signs of 2023 just being a year just to tool around – but there are super high goals. While they ran just a…

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NASCAR Garage 56 drivers announced

The team for the 2023 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Garage 56 car has been announced. It will be Jimmie Johnson, Mike Rockenfeller and Jenson Button, who will race the modified Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 NASCAR for the 24-hour classic. It is no surprise that we see Johnson and Rockenfeller onboard the car. Johnson is still a huge name in NASCAR, and will be making his comeback in the sport this year, after two seasons of NTT IndyCar Series, in addition to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar…

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Ferrari’s GT drivers assigned

Ferrari has assigned all their GT Competizione drivers for the 2023 season. In the FIA World Endurance Championship, the AF Corse Ferrari #54 pairing of Francesco Castellacci and Thomas Flohr will be supported by Davide Rigon. Rigon will replace Nick Cassidy in the GTE Am effort. Kessel Racing Ferrari #57 will have Daniel Serra join Takeshi Kimura and Scott Huffaker in the yellow Car Guy branded GTE Am contender. Richard Mille AF Corse Ferrari #83 previously made an announcement about Lilou Wadoux joining Luis Perez Companc. They will have Alessio…

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JOTA ready with Hypercar drivers

JOTA has presented the three drivers, who will run in their brand-new Hypercar programme in the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship. Yifei Ye was named the first driver, a couple of months back, while the two other drivers weren’t named. The British team has now revealed, to nobody’s surprise, that Antonio Felix da Costa and Will Stevens are the two other drivers onboard the Porsche 963 That pairing was part of claiming the LMP2 Championship for the 2022 season, where Roberto Gonzalez was the Silver ranked driver. But Hypercar is…

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Very few spots left for Le Mans

Despite it still being more than a month until the closing date entry submissions, it’s already clear that there are only very few spots left for the 2023 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. That is of course depending on all the new Hypercar competitors being ready to compete, when we get to June. But if we look at the entry list for the FIA World Endurance Championship, which was announced last week, as the basis, we might end up with less than a dozen of available spots,…

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Wadoux new Ferrari driver

Lilou Wadoux has been named as the new official Ferrari Competizione GT driver. The 21 year-old French driver has had a rapid rise in sportscar racing, where she competed in the 2021 Alpine Elf Europa Cup. She had such a success, that Richard Mille Racing Team decided to put her in a LMP2 car for 2022. Richard Mille Racing Team was run by the Signatech team, which is running the Alpine sportscar programme too. It was announced a few months ago, that the Richard Mille name would disappear after the…

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Varrone goes to Corvette

Corvette Racing has their 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship ready. It’s been known for a couple of months, that the team would move from the now-defunct GTE Pro category to GTE Am. During that announcement, it was revealed that Ben Keating and Nicky Catsburg would be the first drivers for the team. The name of the third and final driver has been released now. That will be Argentinian racer Nicolas Varonne. He has been racing in sportscars for the past few seasons, after a classic karting and single-seater background. He…

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Cadillac shows colors

Cadillac has shown the colours on their three brand new LMDh cars. All three cars will have their debut at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, which will be run at Daytona International Speedway on 28-29 January 2023, but with testing starting one weekend earlier at the very same track. Car #01 will be run by Chip Ganassi Racing, and will have Renger van der Zande and Sebastien Bourdais as the full-season drivers in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. They will be assisted by Scott Dixon for the endurance races. Car…

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D’Station Racing joins for another FIA WEC season

D’Station Racing will join for another season of the FIA World Endurance Championship. The Japanese team will once again be run by TF Sport, who has run all their international programmes for the past seasons. Team owners Tomonobu Fujii and Satoshi Hoshino will once again share the car. They will however have a new teammate in the shape of British racer Casper Stevenson. The highlight for the team during the 2022 season was the podium at their home circuit at Fuji, with the dark green Aston Martin Vantage GTE being…

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Prema doubles up for FIA WEC

Prema Racing will double their LMP2 effort for the FIA World Endurance Championship 2023. The team made their LMP2 debut in 2022, with a single car in the FIA WEC, and a single car in the European Le Mans Series. They won races and the Championship in ELMS, while they claimed a single podium finish at Le Mans 2022, which counted towards the FIA WEC season. Car #9 will have Juan Manuel Correa as one of the drivers. He will do a combined FIA WEC and FIA Formula 2 season.…

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Ferrari announces Hypercar drivers

Ferrari has announced the six drivers, who will race the brand new Ferrari 499P in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Car #50 will be shared by Nicklas Nielsen, Miguel Molina and Antonio Fuoco, while car #51 will have the defending GTE Pro Champions James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi, and the former Formula 1 driver Antonio Giovinazzi. Nielsen has won numerous races and titles, since he was hired by Ferrari. He was part of the Hypercar testing from the very start, being the second guy in the car, after the…

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Danish-Brazilian trio at JOTA

JOTA has announced the three drivers, who will try to repeat the FIA World Endurance Championship LMP2 title in the 2023 season. Oliver Rasmussen will continue for the team, with David Heinemeier Hansson and Pietro Fittipaldi joining the Dane. Rasmussen raced for the team in 2022, with the big highlight being the third-place finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and another podium at the 6 Hours of Fuji. DHH has previously raced for JOTA, not only once by twice. His first time with the team was in 2018…

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